Rhetoric is good, but it can only go so far -- a politician actually has to do his or her job once in office. So it'll be interesting to see how Chris Christie tries to
weasel out of this one:
Republican Governor Christie said he knew for months that he and his second-in-command would be vacationing out of state between Christmas and New Year's, when a blizzard slammed the East Coast, but he waited until Dec. 22 to ask the Senate president if he was available to fill in.
Democratic Senate President Stephen Sweeney was acting governor for four days while the state was walloped by a winter storm that dumped nearly 3 feet of snow on some coastal communities. Working from his home county of Gloucester, Sweeney declared a state of emergency the day Christie and his family had left on a flight to Orlando, Fla., when Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno was vacationing with family in Mexico.
Trying to
mislead the press probably isn't the smartest response to this story.
Christie said he apologized if his remarks gave the impression that he had spoken directly with Sweeney.
"I communicated with him through my staff," he said, mentioning chief of staff Rich Bagger and counsel Jeff Chiesa.
He went on to state "I didn't say it as clearly as I should have."
The establishment media seems to love this guy, no matter what he does -- including presiding over an administration that made a
$400 million mistake and having
wasted federal tax dollars. Voters in New Jersey
don't really love Christie (turns out, shockingly, they'd prefer someone who does the job rather than talks about doing the job), but, again, that doesn't stop the Beltway press from fawning over him. Nevertheless, the next time Christie runs -- be it for President, for Vice President or for reelection as New Jersey Governor -- he is going to have to answer a whole lot of questions relating to his elevation of schtick at the expense of governing.
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